By Trystan Tregenza Hall
Through the generosity and tenacity of Masks for Medics and The Angel Network, it was made possible for South African Friends of Israel to deliver a significant consignment of high quality, medical grade PPE to its network.
The PPE consisted of 86 foot-pedal sanitiser dispensers, 172 large five-litre bottles of sanitiser fluid, 430 face guards or visors, plus several thousand disposable face masks. These have been distributed for the protection of the paid staff and volunteers who are working on the front lines to provide community services within some of the poorest neighbourhoods in the Cape Town region, as well as for the benefit of their service users. These brave workers have been keeping the wheels rolling at 31 pre-schools and seven soup kitchens/churches, as well as several care homes and a high school. The majority of these facilities are located in the Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain and Fisantekraal areas. Some of the staff and volunteers have personally suffered with COVID-19, having contracted the virus during the course of their occupations. Many of them have had insufficient or inappropriate PPE, sometimes consisting of only a simple face scarf, as these community organisations have hitherto fallen through the cracks of government PPE provision. Many have expressed their heartfelt thanks to the charities involved in obtaining the supply of PPE, as well as to the Jewish community, for helping to make these meaningful donations possible.
Councellor Demitrius Dudley and his daughter, Christy Haefele, at the Nomhle Educare Centre 
Trystan Tregenza Hall, SAZF CC Executive Director Chaya Singer and Natasha Salkinder with the PPE for SA Friends of Israel
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